This Librarian Life

my life as a high school librarian, ELD program assistant, volunteer

[explore-blog]

Listen. If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

Wisdom on storytelling from Neil Gaiman (via explore-blog)

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#ThyCaptionBe: Special Delivery!

You captioned this detail. And we’re revealing the full story now.

Amazon Prime dragon? Baby Merlin? Floating torso? It’s actually the fantastical birth of Alexander the Great.

Here’s the full story:

Apparently, childbirth is no excuse to take off one’s fancy hat.

Given that Alexander the Great was considered the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen, it is perhaps not surprising that his birth took on supernatural overtones. Here, the dragon flying above the newborn and his mother refers to Alexander’s supposed divine origin: according to the Delphic oracle, the god Zeus seduced Alexander’s mother disguised as a dragon.

#ThyCaptionBe is a celebration of modern interpretations of medieval aesthetics. You guess what the heck is going on, then we myth-bust.

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Real functional VHS for modern movies by Offtrackoutlet

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I want all of them

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My kind of shit

[loremerchant]

This whole post is a blessing.

[refinery29]

This eighth grade student just schooled her teacher about the body shaming legacy of the BMI

When a class assignment asked a student to calculate her BMI, an eighth grader wrote an essay showing her teacher why the BMI is an outdated, offensive measure of health. Read the letter after the jump.

Photos: Facebook/MacLeod Cartoons

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March is Women’s History Month! In honor, we’ve put together this brief list of some of our favorite (including some brand-new books that quickly shot to the top of that list) YA historical fiction about amazingly fierce heroines. There are only 20 books on this list, so let’s add to it! Which are your must-have historical fiction choices, your favorite characters in historical YA fiction, or your favorite authors of historical YA fiction?  

Revolution, by Jennifer Donnelly

Audacity, by Melanie Crowder

Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Perez

A Tyranny of Petticoats, edited by Jessica Spotswood

Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson

A Death-Struck Year, by Makiia Lucier

Under a Painted Sky, by Stacey Lee

The Cure for Dreaming, by Cat Winters

A Mad, Wicked Folly, by Sharon Biggs Waller

Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys

Code Name: Verity, by Elizabeth Wein

Briar Rose, by Jane Yolen

What I Saw and How I Lied, by Judy Blundell

Prisoner of Night and Fog, by Anne Blankman

All the Truth That’s In Me, by Julie Berry

Razorhurst, by Justine Larbalestier

Lies We Tell Ourselves, by Robin Talley

A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray

Burn, Baby, Burn, by Meg Medina

Gilt, by Katherine Longshore

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Just in time for the first day of spring, the weather has turned gloomy (unfortunately). Silver lining: if you’re stuck inside this weekend, there are many amazing books to be found on this list for Women’s History Month (fortunately). So we’re reblogging for all our Tumblr friends who don’t need a reason to stay in and read, but want one anyway. :)

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Unusable tomatoes are being turned into electricity thanks to science

Hecklers’ favorite fruit may have a new use. A team of researchers have found a way to render unwanted tomatoes into biofuel. They presented their findings at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society in San Diego on Wednesday.

The group built a microbial electrochemical cell that can pull an electrical current out of tomato waste using an oxidation process.

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[thislibrarianlife]

Whoa

[micdotcom]

Watch: New anti-Trump ad reminds us of his own misogynistic words.

[bookriot]

What if classic literary characters had social media?

http://bookriot.com/2016/03/15/classic-literary-characters-on-social-media/

[penguinrandomhouse]

#ChallengeYourShelf with our Women’s History Month reading challenge!

[bookriot]

Stand-alone fantasy novels are beautiful things. You read one book, and get one complete story, with all the resolution you need. You can close the book with a satisfying thunk at the end, knowing that the characters have completed their journeys, and that all the ends are more or less tucked in neatly.

If you like your fantasy to come packaged in one convenient volume, here is a list of one-book fantasies.

http://bookriot.com/2016/03/01/7-standalone-novels-fantasy-lovers/

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by iván argote

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President Barack Obama will nominate the longtime director of Baltimore's public library system as the new head of the Library of Congress, the White House said Wednesday.

Fantastic choice!

Hayden was also LJ’s Librarian of the Year in 1995.

[thislibrarianlife]

This is so exciting!

[whatshouldwecallme]

As soon as my workout class instructor starts cooling down with the stretches

[bookriot]

Women reading: a look at some of the images from the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections.

http://bookriot.com/2016/02/24/19-images-women-reading-nypls-digital-collections/

[refinery29]

Samantha Bee perfectly explains why “girl power” doesn’t mean anything– right now

We tell girls they can grow up to be anything, but what does that mean when workplace harassment is so common? Samantha Bee is on it. And she has one totally simple solution.

Gifs: Full Frontal

WATCH THE VIDEO

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I hate the word “discourse” it just sounds like Goofy saying “discuss”

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this post literally ruined my life

[thislibrarianlife]

Ah hahahaha!!

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